Guwahati, June 10 -- Reported by Bhadra Gogoi

Dimapur: Nagaland Health and Family Welfare Minister P Paiwang Konyak has called for a collective and coordinated effort to support the state's one-year ban on products containing tobacco or nicotine.

Addressing a high-level review meeting of the Health and Family Welfare Department in Kohima on Tuesday, Konyak urged civil society organisations, churches and community leaders to extend their support to the ban and help ensure its effective implementation.

The state government on June 4 imposed a one-year ban on the manufacture, storage, transportation, distribution and sale of all food products containing tobacco or nicotine as ingredients, citing public health concerns and directions issue...